Category: ThinkSmith

Inviting Employee Ideas is Good For Business and Sense of Purpose Critical Thinking Critical thinking is an essential skill that enables one to analyze and evaluate information, arguments, and ideas systematically and logically. According to Forbes, critical thinking is a “top skill set for leaders.” Why just leaders? I can think of two reasons, 1)…

Empowering Employees for Innovation and Engagement: The Path to a Stronger Company In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies constantly seek ways to drive innovation and improve employee engagement. The idea of tapping into the wisdom and knowledge of the workforce to enhance performance has become increasingly appealing to leaders. Engaging teams on real business…

Supporting the Top-20 Red-flags Facing the OKR Industry The following framework originates from a leading OKR software provider, outlining the potential challenges that companies might encounter while implementing OKRs. While this breakdown stems from a specific vendor, we believe these issues are not exclusive to that provider but rather a broad representation of challenges companies…

Unlocking Untapped Employee Potential: 5 Tips for Prioritizing Work That Needs to Get Done Successful Businesses Successful businesses align highly engaged front-line staff with corporate objectives or OKRs. Unfortunately, the reality of this goal is that research suggests 14% of companies do an excellent job of getting front-line staff to understand corporate strategies. Further exacerbating…